Visibility of the lesser sphenoid wing is an important indicator for detecting the middle cerebral artery on transcranial color-coded sonography

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 272-279

  Suzuki, Rieko ^a   Koga, Masatoshi ^b   Mori, Mayumi ^a   Endo, Kaoru ^a   Toyoda, Kazunori ^a   Minematsu, Kazuo ^a  

^a Department of Cerebrovascular Medicine ^*  (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cerebrovascular disease; Lesser sphenoid wing; Middle cerebral artery; Stroke; Transcranial color coded sonography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CONTRALATERAL TEMPORAL BONE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LESSER SPHENOID WING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPHENOID SINUS; TEMPORAL BONE; TRANSCRANIAL COLOR CODED SONOGRAPHY; VISIBILITY;

AGED; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIAL DISEASES; JAPAN; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPHENOID BONE; STROKE; TEMPORAL BONE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 84856154179     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: 14219786     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000333449     Document Type: Article

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